In this chapter, we show how care, healing, and belonging can emerge through art-based, community-engaged research with LGBTQIA+ refugees in the Netherlands in the context of the LIMBO project: a collaborative workshop series centered on storytelling and creative practice. Drawing on participants’ and our own experiences as facilitators of the workshops and authors of this chapter, we show how LIMBO was co-created as a flexible, non-compulsory space where queer refugees could share reflections through writing, drawing, sculpting, and other artistic forms while collectively shaping the project itself. Against deficit-oriented approaches in refugee studies, we focused on a desire-based methodology that foregrounds participants’ full humanity, creativity, agency, and aspirations rather than framing them primarily through need, trauma, or lack. Situating LIMBO within a broader Dutch context marked by neoliberal individualism, exclusion, and rising hostility, we argue for reciprocal, non-paternalistic research approaches that center solidarity and agency, enabling positive transformation on personal and group levels. Drawing on feminist care ethics, the Filipino concept of kapwa (shared self), and the theory of the rhizome, we conceptualize LIMBO as a rhizomatic queer community: decentralized, relational, and sustained through fluid, interconnected forms of knowledge-making and mutual support. Healing emerged not as a predetermined goal, but through artistic expression, emotional openness, and reciprocal care. At the same time, we acknowledge the challenges of sustaining such spaces, including the shifting, and unevenness, of care practices.